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posted by on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the to-be-replaced-by-piles-of-beignets dept.

A 2015 New Orleans Times-Picayune article tells how New Orléans' Vieux Carré Commission recommended that four monuments be removed. Three of them honour

[...] Confederate generals P.G.T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy [...]

The other monument

[...] was erected in 1891 to honor the 16 members of the White League who died during an insurrection against the integrated Reconstructionist government in Louisiana, which was based in New Orleans at the time.

Various news outlets are reporting that the latter monument, an obelisk, has been dismantled at the behest of the city government, and that the others are also set to be dismantled.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:53PM (3 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:53PM (#504021) Journal

    Adolf could have been an internet celebrity.

    What do you mean? He most certainly is one, as big as life, still with plenty of followers.

    --
    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:10PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:10PM (#504033)

    Obviously meant within his lifetime. If only the long tail had provided a market for his art with a lower barrier of entry and he had found acceptance in some niche. Then perhaps he wouldn't have felt the need to punish entire ethnic groups for ruining his country.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday May 04 2017, @12:01AM (1 child)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday May 04 2017, @12:01AM (#504065) Homepage

      Now this I agree with. His art was better than that of the common man, and yet against more capable artists it sucked. He apparently had some kind of depth-perception disorder and could not maintain angular integrity when working with one-point perspectives, though he fared slightly better with two-point perspectives.

      I like to compare Hitler to the Unabomber. Both men with gifts, but once they experienced the upper echelons of intellectualism, within their craft, they found themselves no longer great but merely average, and their egos could not handle that. So each of them created their own gifts, so to speak, upon the worlds of the commons.

      If a Prima Donna cannot handle being mediocre, then they go out in a bang.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday May 04 2017, @01:12AM

        by bob_super (1357) on Thursday May 04 2017, @01:12AM (#504094)

        SN: come for the arguments about history revisionism, stay for a discussion about art and Hilter's eyes...